re: Best router out there currently

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You should probably turn down the power on your APs.

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That's a valid point, but the router/mesh software (or the phone) should be smart enough to take throughput vs signal strength, etc., into account. But, even within the same brand, it can be handled differently in the software. Some firmware handles handoff better than others, but he shouldn't need handoff to begin with, unless he lives on a farm. There is a long list of considerations about how the endpoint device does the handoff, or doesn't, as well. Unless he's got a giant property, I'd still suggest trying to do some wifi reception analysis before spending money on hardware and relying on that to fix the problem. This may tell you, depending on how much bandwidth you chew up in certain locations, whether you can get away with a non wired backhaul for your "remote" location. It matters if you you're watching Prime Video, or if your kids are just scrolling Tik Tok, in terms of what you need.

Normal people shouldn't have to get into stuff like turning down AP power to have devices work normally. Especially now that everyone has multiple Wifi networks in their houses, things like channel deconfliction are nearly a fools errand for the above average homeowner.

An option you may have is to create different Wifi networks on the same router. One for media devices, another for mobiles, another for laptops/PCs. That may make the situation better, if you can do it.